I managed to miss most of the House debate last night due to a cable box that seems to be flaking out (Comcast is coming Tuesday). But I did catch the last hour or so. I'm not exactly a CSPAN junkie, but it seems to me to be quite the piece of political theater. I had no idea who John Murtha was before 48 hours ago, but his gravitas and sincereity is fantastic. I wish we'd seen more of him in the past. All last night needed was some better scriptwriters, a few cute young House interns for jiggles, and a happy ending, and Hollywood would have loved it.
Seriously, though, what did it all mean? I don't know. Supposedly the Republicans introduced the 'get out now' resolution to embarrass the Democrats. True, now everyone can go into the 06 election cycle and say 'See, 400+ members of the House voted against getting out, so we must Stay The Course
NTodd has a good take on things, but I suspect we will not see Murtha's resolution coming to the floor anytime soon. The House leadership won't see any benefit in allowing debate over a proposal that's acutally reasonable, now that they've had their chance to make a calculated political gesture.
